The growth of medical device cleaning market is majorly driven by the incidence of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), rise in healthcare expenditure, and increasing focus on disinfection and sterilization in the healthcare sector.

The global is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 5.6% from 2017 to 2022, to reach USD 1.71 million by 2022. The medical device cleaning market report analyzes by process, application, & region. On basis of process, disinfection segment accounted for largest share in 2016, owing to increasing demand for high-level disinfectants & sterilization for heat-sensitive instruments & increasing effectiveness of these disinfectants. Based on application, global medical device cleaning market is categorized into surgical instruments, endoscopes, ultrasound probes, and other instruments.

Geographically, the global medical device cleaning market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. North America holds the largest share of this market and this is primarily attributed to its well-established healthcare industry, the prevalence of chronic diseases, and increasing volume of surgical procedures.

The medical device cleaning market segmented into presoak/pre-cleaning, manual cleaning, automatic cleaning, and disinfection. Automatic cleaning expected to register highest CAGR during forecast period owing to increasing use of automatic washer to maximize productivity with minimum usage of detergents & disinfectants, effective cleaning of organic contaminants from surgical instruments, and minimum time required for cleaning using an automated washer.

Concerns about the safety and performance of reprocessed devices among some healthcare providers due to inadequate cleaning are increasing the widespread adoption of single-use medical instruments. Therefore, the lower adoption of instrument reprocessing techniques among healthcare facilities is going to restrain the growth of instrument cleaning & disinfection market at certain extent during the forecast period.

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